GNU bug report logs - #59544
[PATCH] Fixed lib-src/etags.c command execute vulnerability

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "lux" <lx <at> shellcodes.org>

Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 15:28:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch, security

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 59544 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, lx <at> shellcodes.org
Subject: bug#59544: [PATCH] Fixed lib-src/etags.c command execute vulnerability
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 20:38:04 +0200

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 10:12:31 -0800
> Cc: 59544 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> But would it not be better to rewrite etags.c to not use system(1) at
> all?

That's a possibility, yes.  Although I doubt that people are still using
ctags that comes with Emacs (this code fragment runs only in ctags, not in
etags).
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